How to Suppress Routing Components in Configurations properly?

Hi,

I am working on a routing assembly and I need to create different configurations for pipe routes.

Some of the pipes have flanges, some of them have valves and some of them have nothing on them.

When I add any component on a pipe, lets say a flange (shown in the picture)

and then when I want to suppress that flange on another configuration,

I end up having a gap between the pipes, which SolidWorks automatically creates while adding the flanges.

How do I workaround this, is there a way to end up with a whole pipe, after suppressing the component?

Thank you.

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